Love it or hate it, expect more stories like this in the coming months. Black Ops II is already breaking retail records.

According to Amazon, day one pre-orders for the latest Call of Duty game are three times higher than those achieved by its 2010 predecessor Black Ops.

“Set to be one of the biggest games of the year, it’s great to see so much enthusiasm and anticipation for Call of Duty: Black Ops II,” said Amazon UK’s video games manager Graham Chambers.

“Bolder and better than before and with everything from a futuristic storyline through to single player mode, Zombies and multiplayer, Black Ops II promises something Call of Duty fans have never seen before.’’

Why is that news, you ask? Because Black Ops remains the biggest-selling game in the history of the CoD franchise, and by extension one of the biggest-selling games ever. Blops II looks like it might be even bigger. Must be the horses.

The CoD fanbass are full on window lickers. Complain every year about how shit and annoying the game is, yet they go and *bleep*ing pre-order the next one without knowing *bleep* all about it.

I expected it break MW3's record, just because for some people BO and MW3 would of been their first CoD, so they won't be sick of the franchise yet, and of course each year more and more people are getting older enough to buy it themselves legally etc.

But this breaking records so early isn't because of how good the game looks, but simply because of how stupid and brainwashed the fan base is.

Edit: Wait, why are they comparing it to BO? Sure it's sold more, but that's because it's been out longer than MW3. Wasn't MW3 the game that smashed the records come release day and was the biggest entertainment release of all time, bigger than any blockbuster movie release as well, something that BO wasn't able to do?

Oh yeah this wasn't suprise, now i'm just waiting for the 20 new map packs to come out, and they costa tenner each.

The funny thing is people like you actually buy them!

I don't buy them.. My end of the bargain is finalised in buying the game because my friends want me to buy it. If they want me to continue to play with them, they buy me the maps not the other way round.

Yeah I wouldn't call this much of a surprise. Hopefully this game is different because we all know everyone is going to buy it then if it is the same old shit they will have gotten away with it once again. :<